60 ITlatter of the raid on Ellsbel g's psychiatl ist's office. Cox also said tod..1Y that the \VhIte House had re- fused to give him access to the files on the milk industry's campaign contI i- butions . A GALL{TP poll says that the public is against I emoving the President flom office by a percentage of fifty- four to thirty-seven. NOVEMBER 14 T HE rift between the President .1nd the Repuhlicans is even wider than I had thought. Tod.1Y, I went to see a Republican senator who had been very lova1 to the President. I asked him if it was, as some said, just a matter of time before the Republic.1ns broke with the President. He replied, "Yes. I con- sidered myself a Nixon supp\1rter. I faulted those around Nixon-felt that they used us and then cast us aside. \Vhen we got Into Watergate, my gut reaction was to stdnd up and flail at the critics. But, as ) ou may have noticed, not many of us did that. \/Ve didn't know. There was a suspicion on the part of the senators. \Ve figured, why should we stick our necks out? \Ve don't know what to think. There is one disclosure after another. Some of us would be willing to lose our Senate Se.lts if we felt that the President was not involved. But I won't stand on this desk and take an oath that the Presi- dent h.1s convinced me that the Presi- dent is totally innocent. It's going to take more th.1n a statement by the PresIdent. I'll need an independent SOUl ce now--maybe Judge Sirica, may- be the HOllse of Representatives. J'1] go out and charge into the critics if J feel that I'm <'lrmed with the facts, but I can't feel that now. I call it a no-win situation for the Republicans now. If you go to speak to a Republi- can group, the) are probably for the President, and they'll sav afterward, 'Senator X didn't stand up for the President,' but there's probably a re- porter there who will write about it if you do. It's had. I think many Re- publicans .:lre waiting now. They've been used. I don't see what the Presi- dent can do 111m self to restore the lost confidence. Hedging IS legal, and a lot of it is done in politics, but it's difficult for us now. So we have to ask our- selves, 'If there's no way out for the President, how many others should suffer?' Senators and House meillbers wIll lose seats. And there are all the people outside the political arena who are losing faith. If he's clean and he can find a spnngboard, and it doesn't break with him jumping up and down on It, we might survive next " year. The senator said there were three groups of }{.epublican senators: those who had not supported the President at any point, and who, the other Re- publicans noticed, were now the strong- est po1iticallv; those who remained loyal to the President; and those he desci ibed as "back and forth." "The re aren't many gung-ho Nixon types in the cloakroom these days," he said. "\Ve wonder how he can stay. \Ve wonder how much he can be enjoying this. The main thing is that there is now a dis- belief. How C.1n we believe? What C.111 we tell the peuple f I have decided that I don't know of any recourse but an impeachment inquiry. That or Judge Sirica. It's too late for him to get up and say, 'I didn't tell the American people about this or that, and I regret that.' It's too late. But he won't give up. He just doesn't give up. There's nothing you can really point to about which you can say that that is what is causing time to run out, but a lot of us feel that it is running out. People here seem to feel J erry Ford has gone over well with the American people. They find him acceptable-more acceptable than NiÀon." The senator said that if, as Inany thought, Ford had been chosen to provide insurance against the President's impeachment, because of his apparently lacklustre credentials for becoming President, it was turning out to be "just the reverse." The senator contInued, "At first, when they said to us, 'Come to the \Vhite House,' we thought that \vas quite something. But that doesn't work anymore. \/Ve're not a westruck anymore. They kept telling us that this story would go away. It's sti]} here." . S i\ID another Republican senator, "\Ve keep weighing having him out of office versus limping along for three years. We are losing confidence in his ability to turn it around." The senator said he was getting letters from third-grade children who were troubled .1bout the President. He said, "This IS Jeeper un the college campuses than Cambodia was." Finally, he said, "\Vhen it's a question of me and thee in politics, it's usually thee who has to " go. . A FEDER.L L judge ruled today that the firing of Archihald Cox was illegal. He said that the .1ction b) ActIng Attorney General Robert Bork violated a federal regulation that had the force of law The ruling did not have the effect of reinstating Cox. . I SHARED a taxi frolTI Capitol Hill this afternoon with two men who were getting off at the Justice Depart- ment. c..y ou work at the Justice De- partment?" the taxi-driver said to one of them. "I guess you stand a pretty good chance of beIng .L ttorney Gen- 1 " era. OVEMBER 15 T HE WashIngtOn Post reports that Representative John Anderson, RLpublican of Illinois, who is an im- portant member of the House, has said that he has decided not to run for the Senate next year. Anderson cited "the spectre of Watergate" as the reason for his decision. He said a private poll taken for him In Illinois showed that forty-six per cent of the voters there thought Watergate was the most important ISSU e . T HE Administration is reported to be divided over whether to 1mpose gasoline rationing. . A WASHINGTON Post feature on Peter Rodino, Democrat of New Jersey, and the chairman of the House J udiciar} Committee, brings to the sur- face a question that there has been in conversation about Rodino, whose com- mittee is to conduct the impeachment inquiry. Rodino was close to, and at one time shared a Washington apart- ment with, former Representative Hugh Addonizio, who, like Rodino, represented Newark. Addonizio later became m.lvor of Newark and recentlv went to jail on charges of corruption. The Post points out that Rodino repre- sents "a region where organIzed crime has been en trenched and political cor- ruption common." It quotes the United States Attorney who prosecuted Addo- nizio as saying, "There's never been an inquiry about Rodino, never the slightest anything. In illY opinion, Pete Rodinu is an honest man and a fine public servant." The Post quotes Ro- dino as saying that he would not know a nlobster "If I fell over him." Rodino told the Post that there was nothing in his background that the Adnlinistration could use to induce him to go easy on impeachment. It has come to that. \Ve wonder, be- cause we have to, who has what on whom. We assume th.1t the question of potential blackmail extends to many